Kuwait

Capital city — Kuwait City

Country population
4,270,563
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2020
/ World Bank
Type of government
Constitutional Monarchy
Human Development Index
0.806
(64/188)
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2019
/ UNDP, Human Development Report
Homicide rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)
1.8
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2012
/ UNDP, Human Development Report
Name of authority in charge of the pris…
Ministry of the Interior
Total number of prisoners
4,420
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2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabit…
111
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2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Prison density
129 %
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2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Total number of prison facilities
3
(in one complex)
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2015
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
An NPM has been established
no
Number and percentage of female prisone…
5.8 %
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2019
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Incarcerated minors
Data not disclosed
Untried prisoners
17 %
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2020
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR
Death penalty is abolished
no
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PdM

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